College football coaching carousel is spinning along

The assemblage shot coaching carousel keeps spinning close on this season.

Next year, the assemblage shot scenery volition look somewhat different, with acquainted faces landing successful caller places.

Southern California fired their caput coach, Clay Helton, successful September. Then successful December, they shocked the assemblage shot satellite by luring University of Oklahoma caput manager Lincoln Riley distant from Norman to manager the Trojans.

In October, Louisiana State University announced that caput manager Ed Orgeron would not beryllium backmost 2 years aft helium won a nationalist title. They hired Notre Dame caput manager Brian Kelly successful December to regenerate him.

Notre Dame wasted nary clip promoting antiaircraft coordinator Marcus Freeman to regenerate Kelly.

Oklahoma brought backmost a acquainted look erstwhile they named Clemson antiaircraft coordinator Brent Venables their 23rd caput coach. Venables was portion of OU's unit from 1999 to 2011.

Another large sanction that made a splash was Mario Cristobal, who near Oregon to instrumentality implicit for Manny Diaz astatine the University of Miami.

TCU (Gary Patterson), Washington (Jimmy Lake), and Virginia Tech (Justin Fuente) were relieved of their caput coaching duties earlier the play ended.

Dan Mullen was fired from Florida 1 week earlier the Gators were to play in-state rival Florida State. The Gators past named Billy Napier arsenic his replacement.